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vice president joe biden talked a little 2012 himself in an interview with david gregory of "meet the press" acknowledging the economic challenges the administration faces in its bid for re-election. >> we would need a strong republican party. we need a republican party that's united. >> is it strong enough of a republican party for its nominee to beat this president. >> oh, absolutely, absolutely it's strong enough to beat both of us. the american people right now are many of them are in real trouble and a larger percentage have stagnant wages and a sigma majority of the american people believe that the country's not moving in the right direction. that is never a good place to be going in a re-election whether it's your fault or not your fault it's almost sometimes irrelevant. >> meanwhile, the solyndra sc scandal continues to hang over the head. the official in charge of the loan program that offered money to solyndra has resigned. the president pushed back though on some of the criticism of that initiative. >> i heard there was a republican member of congress whose engaging an over
vice president joe biden talked a little 2012 himself in an interview with david gregory of "meet the press" acknowledging the economic challenges the administration faces in its bid for re-election. >> we would need a strong republican party. we need a republican party that's united. >> is it strong enough of a republican party for its nominee to beat this president. >> oh, absolutely, absolutely it's strong enough to beat both of us. the american people right now...
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biden had to say yesterday which raised some eyebrows. take a listen. >> is it strong enough as a republican party to beat this president? >> absolutely, absolutely. it's strong enough to beat both of us. a significant portion of the american people believe the country is not moving in the right direction. whether it's your fault or not your fault. >> did he mean to say that or do you think he's trying to down play expectations? >> i think he's trying to down play expectations, but it did the reverse, because what he's really saying is everybody knows it does come down to the economy, and no matter how we look at it, the american people, the voting public at the end of the day, they, in fact, are going to hold the white house, the man at the top, the president, president obama accountable. so when you're going into the heavy duty part of the political season and have 9.1% or worse unemployment then people are going to be asking questions, what did you do, when did you do it, did you do enough, and these are the things joe biden and the pr
biden had to say yesterday which raised some eyebrows. take a listen. >> is it strong enough as a republican party to beat this president? >> absolutely, absolutely. it's strong enough to beat both of us. a significant portion of the american people believe the country is not moving in the right direction. whether it's your fault or not your fault. >> did he mean to say that or do you think he's trying to down play expectations? >> i think he's trying to down play...
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. >>> plus joe biden said today it won't happen. hillary clinton said today it won't happen, and i have no evidence it will happen. why do some people keep stirring the pot, saying a desperate president obama will dump biden and put hillary on the ticket? >>> what are we to make of the alleged plot to assassinate the saudi ambassador. ? was it a rogue operation? or planned at the top in iran? >>> let me finish with the sorry displace, as peggy lee would say, is that all there are there is? >>> we start with the clown show. congressman frank is from, and congressman frank, i have a lot of respect for you, as you know. here was night gingrich talking saying you both should be in prison. inchsz if you want to put people in jail, i want to second what michelle said, you ought to start with barney frank and chris dodd, and let's look at the politicians who profited from the environment, and the politicians who put this country in trouble. >> clearly not saying they should go to jail. >> in chris dodd's case, go back and look at the count
. >>> plus joe biden said today it won't happen. hillary clinton said today it won't happen, and i have no evidence it will happen. why do some people keep stirring the pot, saying a desperate president obama will dump biden and put hillary on the ticket? >>> what are we to make of the alleged plot to assassinate the saudi ambassador. ? was it a rogue operation? or planned at the top in iran? >>> let me finish with the sorry displace, as peggy lee would say, is that...
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he helped with al gore's effort and joe biden's effort in 1998. they want someone who will be interchangeable in democratic politics can run that. but they're risking a lot of bad press in the process. >> it sounds like what you're saying is something distinct -- what has been reported is these business connection are a kea feature not a bug. you get bill daley in to smooth things over with the business. >> that's sort of a side element to it that there is the supposedly bad relations with wall street. because bill daley serves with jpmorgan he will create all the good will between the two parties. i don't think anyone expects that to happen. wall street is doing perfectly well right now. they have great profits. the fact they're bringing in bill daley doesn't change the animus they'll feel towards this white house. in essence, he is sort of that key person who will know all the key players in the obama orbit. you want someone while you're running for reelect who knows the chicago team. >> he is an executive jpmorgan chase. the bank received $25 b
he helped with al gore's effort and joe biden's effort in 1998. they want someone who will be interchangeable in democratic politics can run that. but they're risking a lot of bad press in the process. >> it sounds like what you're saying is something distinct -- what has been reported is these business connection are a kea feature not a bug. you get bill daley in to smooth things over with the business. >> that's sort of a side element to it that there is the supposedly bad...
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plus, joe biden said today it won't happen. hillary clinton said today it won't happen, and i have no evidence that it will, so why do some people keep stirring the pot saying a desperate president obama will dump biden and put hillary on the ticket? and what do you make of that alleged plot to assassinate the saudi arabian ambassador here in washington? was it a rogue operation or a plant at the top in iran? finally, let me finish with the sorry display we saw last night. as miss peggy lee would say, is that all there is? we start with the clown show that the republican field has become, as we saw last night in that debate. u.s. congressman barney frank is a democrat of massachusetts, david corn, of course, is an msnbc political analyst and washington bureau chief for "mother jones" magazine. congressman frank, a lot of respect for you, as you know. i want you to listen, if you didn't catch it last night, here was newt gingrich last night talking about you and former senator chris dodd saying you should both be in prison. let'
plus, joe biden said today it won't happen. hillary clinton said today it won't happen, and i have no evidence that it will, so why do some people keep stirring the pot saying a desperate president obama will dump biden and put hillary on the ticket? and what do you make of that alleged plot to assassinate the saudi arabian ambassador here in washington? was it a rogue operation or a plant at the top in iran? finally, let me finish with the sorry display we saw last night. as miss peggy lee...
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joe biden and everything else this week. david gregory, a man for all seasons and all marathons >>> exactly ten years ago, president bush sent the united states into battle into afghanistan to hunt down al qaeda and their taliban hosts. in retaliation for 9/11. >> on my orders, the united states military has begun strikes against al qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the taliban regime in afghanistan. >> a decade later, we have now lost 1686 american troops. 14,342 more have been wounded. we have spent $338.8 billion at a rate of $7.8 billion a month. nbc's atia abawi is live in kabul. at irk a, what are the lessons now and what is the mood among the troops you've spoken to? >> reporter: it depends on where you go and who you talk to. the majority of troops here in afghanistan know that they have a mission to fight. just a couple of weeks ago, a few weeks ago before the september 11th anniversary we spoke to u.s. airmen here in kabul. many of them say that they've been on various deployments, they'r
joe biden and everything else this week. david gregory, a man for all seasons and all marathons >>> exactly ten years ago, president bush sent the united states into battle into afghanistan to hunt down al qaeda and their taliban hosts. in retaliation for 9/11. >> on my orders, the united states military has begun strikes against al qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the taliban regime in afghanistan. >> a decade later, we have now lost 1686...
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and joining me is the top economic adviser to joe biden, and senator fellow on budget and policy. >> good to see you. >> and you are different affiliations. >> that is right. sorry about that. >> what would we have to throw overboard in order to make the numbers work? >> that is a great question. it is the one factoid i didn't hear in the excellent introduction. >> waiting for you. >> thanks for saving these. look, this thing, within a new fiscal year, the 2012 fiscal year which starts in 70 days or so, it would require a cut of $111 billion, okay. that's a little bit less than, about 7/10ths of a percent of gdp. if anybody in their right mind thinks that this economy went from fragile to frail with the last couple of jobs reports can sustain an extraction of $111 billion of federal spending right now, i'm not sure what planet they are living on. most of the responsible budget plans including the fiscal commission and rital ridalin/deminchey, and you would see the safety programs that people need and also entitlement, infrastructure and education, and pretty much everything that is v
and joining me is the top economic adviser to joe biden, and senator fellow on budget and policy. >> good to see you. >> and you are different affiliations. >> that is right. sorry about that. >> what would we have to throw overboard in order to make the numbers work? >> that is a great question. it is the one factoid i didn't hear in the excellent introduction. >> waiting for you. >> thanks for saving these. look, this thing, within a new fiscal year,...
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what do you think of joe biden's very blunt assessment of 2012? >> well, i think it's clear that president obama's struggling right now, but i think as the contest heats up and you've got a republican contender to pit himself off against, he's going to benefit from that, but i think that it's more important for him to focus on his jobs plan. i think that's the message that the american people want to hear about, and i think the impetus for the jobs plan is now renewed with the new jobs numbers, because i think it shows that if we're going to turn around some of our struggling economic sectors, particularly the government employees, teachers, firemen, police officers, those are the people who actually stand to benefit a great deal from the jobs plan. i think it shows that we need to move on it. >> if there was one striking thing about the week when it comes to obama/biden, it's how they both so easily are now saying this is not going to be easy, but biden also said something else. he said, you know what, it's going to be a choice. well, that's also
what do you think of joe biden's very blunt assessment of 2012? >> well, i think it's clear that president obama's struggling right now, but i think as the contest heats up and you've got a republican contender to pit himself off against, he's going to benefit from that, but i think that it's more important for him to focus on his jobs plan. i think that's the message that the american people want to hear about, and i think the impetus for the jobs plan is now renewed with the new jobs...
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now, at the same time, president -- i'm sorry, vice president joe biden -- he says he's thinking of running in 2060, bhu we don't want to get ahead of ourselves, he's negotiating with the republicans, and he says there's about a trillion in cuts that they have already great upon, apparently. if that involves medicare cuts, is that a badity for the democratic party? >> it's a bad idea for the country. what we did in the health care bill that the media and republicans don't want to acknowledge. making sure that people don't overutilize various kinds of services and various ways of making medicare more efficient, but not undermining or cutting services. there are a lot of things in that bill, particular i senator whitehouse and others have worked on that are going to mean we're going to save some money in medicare, but you don't do it by shifting costs to seniors. the whole republican plan doesn't save medicare anything as a program, it just shifts the cost from the medicare system to seniors so that seniors will literally under the republican budget will play $6,000 or $7,000 more out of pock
now, at the same time, president -- i'm sorry, vice president joe biden -- he says he's thinking of running in 2060, bhu we don't want to get ahead of ourselves, he's negotiating with the republicans, and he says there's about a trillion in cuts that they have already great upon, apparently. if that involves medicare cuts, is that a badity for the democratic party? >> it's a bad idea for the country. what we did in the health care bill that the media and republicans don't want to...
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meanwhile, learning that joe biden's crew of lawmakers have their sights set on $1 trillion in cuts, a big number they think will make for good headlines, trust me, when those cuts come over a decade, they are addressing just a fraction of the problem. one thing for certain, lots of talk about our fiscal future but will our leaders really walk the walk? and why are our leaders spending all their time on this when 13 million american runs employed? the vote on ryan's plan expected in less than an hour. is it significant or a case of developing now on capitol hill, nothing? let's go to ask our man on the inside who knows these things, luke russert, nbc news capitol hill correspondent. what do you make of it? set the scene for us. >> well, matt, the ryan budget will go before the senate floor today and it is actually significant vote because it will get a lot of republicans on the record being for what a lot of folks deem as a controversial medicare voucher program. this comes off the heels of a special eelection in new york yesterday and republican district and democrat won which a lot
meanwhile, learning that joe biden's crew of lawmakers have their sights set on $1 trillion in cuts, a big number they think will make for good headlines, trust me, when those cuts come over a decade, they are addressing just a fraction of the problem. one thing for certain, lots of talk about our fiscal future but will our leaders really walk the walk? and why are our leaders spending all their time on this when 13 million american runs employed? the vote on ryan's plan expected in less than...
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biden. jared, good to see you and i don't know what is wrong with the hour this morning, because i have gremlins out of the ying yang here and i'm glad you are in place and we will talk about what is taking place in washington, d.c. >> we have jobs, right? >> yes, we have job, and that issue is on the table. democrats and republicans in washington finally have the president's back when it comes to the deficit plan, but a different story with the american people. put up a graphics with the "usa today"/gallup poll showing 80% of americans believe we are in a recession right now, so why are his proposals not resonating with the public? >> well, they are actually are, but it depends how you ask the question. i don't want to get into too much of getting tricky with the polls, but it is the case. if you ask about the president's job plan or for that matter they tend to conflate it with the t.a.r.p. and the bailouts and things they don't like, but if you drill down and say, what do you think of imp
biden. jared, good to see you and i don't know what is wrong with the hour this morning, because i have gremlins out of the ying yang here and i'm glad you are in place and we will talk about what is taking place in washington, d.c. >> we have jobs, right? >> yes, we have job, and that issue is on the table. democrats and republicans in washington finally have the president's back when it comes to the deficit plan, but a different story with the american people. put up a graphics...
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the efforts under way by joe biden, by the great vice president, defined some compromise. i'm a believer after watching president clinton in the last few days that perhaps if they get close to a deal, president obama might ask president clinton to come back in and convince some of the democrats that this is the right thing to do. i was most encouraged, though, by mcconnell this morning. he backed away from standing so firm and steadfast with ryan, suggesting strongly that he's ready for a deal, and even listening to chuck schumer this morning. he talked with more specificity about where they would go. so, it's obvious we're moving in a direction where democrats a few weeks ago said no medicare. i live in upstate new york, the race, as much as it was about medicare, it was also about people wanting jobs, about people feeling government's not being fair where they're asking for cuts. they want some tax increases in some areas. so, i think there's a larger story that's being told there, and i hope that both parties listen. >> but alex, there's a larger theme here of leadershi
the efforts under way by joe biden, by the great vice president, defined some compromise. i'm a believer after watching president clinton in the last few days that perhaps if they get close to a deal, president obama might ask president clinton to come back in and convince some of the democrats that this is the right thing to do. i was most encouraged, though, by mcconnell this morning. he backed away from standing so firm and steadfast with ryan, suggesting strongly that he's ready for a deal,...
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the efforts under way by joe biden, by the great vice president, defined some compromise. i'm a believer after watching president clinton in the last few days that perhaps if they get close to a deal, president obama might ask president clinton to come back in and convince some of the democrats that this is the right thing to do. i was most encouraged, though, by mcconnell this morning. he backed away from standing so firm and steadfast with ryan, suggesting strongly that he's ready for a deal, and even listening to chuck schumer this morning. he talked with more specificity about where they would go. so, it's obvious we're moving in a direction where democrats a few weeks ago said no medicare. i live in upstate new york, the race, as much as it was about medicare, it was also about people wanting jobs, about people feeling government's not being fair where they're asking for cuts. they want some tax increases in some areas. so, i think there's a larger story that's being told there, and i hope that both parties listen. >> but, alex, there's a larger theme here of leadersh
the efforts under way by joe biden, by the great vice president, defined some compromise. i'm a believer after watching president clinton in the last few days that perhaps if they get close to a deal, president obama might ask president clinton to come back in and convince some of the democrats that this is the right thing to do. i was most encouraged, though, by mcconnell this morning. he backed away from standing so firm and steadfast with ryan, suggesting strongly that he's ready for a deal,...
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. >> and vice president joe biden in an interview with "meet the press" moderator david gregory acknowledged the political and economic challenges that the administration faces in its bid for reelection. take a listen. >> we would need a strong republican party. we need a republican party that's united. >> is it strong enough of a republican party for its nominee to beat this president? >> absolutely. absolutely. strong enough to beat both of us. the american people right now are -- many of them are in real trouble and even larger percentage have stagnant wages, and a significant majority of the american people believe that the country's not moving in the right direction. that is never a good place to be going into a reelection. whether it's your fault or not your fault. it's sometimes irrelevant. but what i'm counting on, i'm counting on what i read out there, the judgment of the american people to decide they know the hole we're in, they know how far we've come out, they're satisfied how fast we're going, and they're going to have to choose whether or not the path we have set the country o
. >> and vice president joe biden in an interview with "meet the press" moderator david gregory acknowledged the political and economic challenges that the administration faces in its bid for reelection. take a listen. >> we would need a strong republican party. we need a republican party that's united. >> is it strong enough of a republican party for its nominee to beat this president? >> absolutely. absolutely. strong enough to beat both of us. the american...
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sorry, no argument. >> i hope you are still on joe biden's commission, and thank you for being here. all that talk about the rich taxes is making john nervous here. >> i am looking at the tax chart there. >> thank you, congressman clyburn. >> when i see charts like that, if we lived in a self respecting country there will be riot in the streets. the fact there's not more outrage over the inequities in the tax code shocks me. shocks me there is not a huge move towards getting equity -- >> the good news here is that there is actually common ground where people on the left -- and steve, i think populists on the right, think it's unfair for most americans to pay less of a rate than a family of four -- >> the reason why the rate went down so much is because of the cut in the capital gain cut under bush. i would be in favor of raising them. but, the people on the republican side of the aisle are not in favor of raising them, and that false into the rates category, and if you raise it 10%, it would be $80 billion over ten years. >>> thank you very much. chuck schumer is next. we'll be right
sorry, no argument. >> i hope you are still on joe biden's commission, and thank you for being here. all that talk about the rich taxes is making john nervous here. >> i am looking at the tax chart there. >> thank you, congressman clyburn. >> when i see charts like that, if we lived in a self respecting country there will be riot in the streets. the fact there's not more outrage over the inequities in the tax code shocks me. shocks me there is not a huge move towards...
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joe biden is in beijing. he's going to smooth over relations between the united states and china. it seemed like a good idea to have a friendly game of basketball. >> what could go wrong? >> georgetown, our gorgetown university in washington, in beijing, nine minutes left in the game and all hell breaks loose. pushing and shoving lead to this. benches empty, chairs thrown. this was not just pushing and shoving. they called the game there. georgetown had to leave the court under police escort. biden watched them on wednesday. it was not at this game. we'll never know who won this one. >> that is school diplomacy. >> pat, what is la jolla doing? >> as we used to say in the' 50s, if we can't beat them on the court, we can off. >> up next, the must read opinion pages. keep it on "morning joe." the safety of onstar is now available for your car. ♪ [ recorded voice ] onstar. we're looking for city hall. i'm sending directions to your car. [ recorded voice #2 ] turn right on hill street. go north for two miles. ♪ [ man ] this is onstar. i got a signal there's been a crash. do you nee
joe biden is in beijing. he's going to smooth over relations between the united states and china. it seemed like a good idea to have a friendly game of basketball. >> what could go wrong? >> georgetown, our gorgetown university in washington, in beijing, nine minutes left in the game and all hell breaks loose. pushing and shoving lead to this. benches empty, chairs thrown. this was not just pushing and shoving. they called the game there. georgetown had to leave the court under...
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. >> and so republicans, whoever the republican nominee is going to be saying barack obama and joe biden promised us nothing higher than 8% if we passed this stimulus package, we passed it, and everything's gotten worse. what is the answer to that? >> i'd say a couple of things. >> you've got to prove something that's hard to prove. that the company had fallen off a cliff. >> i agree with that. >> that's a difficult argument to make. >> i would say the first thing is. in fairness to christy romer who made that 18% prediction, that was before we were even in office. that was in the transition, and in the same prediction they said that if you did nothing, the unemployment rate would go as high as 8.9%, and it was already before that before the first dollar of the recovery act went out the door. so i think blaming the 8% on the recovery act is a little confused. now, i'll be the first to say that the conditions when the president takes office where we now know the gdp's shrinking at a 9% rate and it's the worst six months that we have data on in the 64 years we've been keeping data, at a mo
. >> and so republicans, whoever the republican nominee is going to be saying barack obama and joe biden promised us nothing higher than 8% if we passed this stimulus package, we passed it, and everything's gotten worse. what is the answer to that? >> i'd say a couple of things. >> you've got to prove something that's hard to prove. that the company had fallen off a cliff. >> i agree with that. >> that's a difficult argument to make. >> i would say the first...
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. >> so, they've got some real good oversight run by joe biden. >> we lead the stealing to the iraqis and the afghans, they are stealing billions from us. but they're good at it. that's another story. >> you mentioned in the piece solyndra and how they never really made it to the front page. conservatives would say because of media that works for barack obama did not push those stories. >> yeah. >> there was a pew study that came out that actually said objectively that the media has not sided with obama. what do you make of the media's role in this scandal-free administration? >> well, first of all, solyndra could still resonate. we don't know. the story is still coming out. but what happened with that was that it turned out that it was a bipartisan thing. obviously to lose close to half a billion dollars on this green energy deal is not pretty. >> was that undercover do you think, though? >> no, i don't think it was. because it turned out, from what we know so far that you had, you know, some campaign contributors in the bush administration who were connected to solyndra, some campai
. >> so, they've got some real good oversight run by joe biden. >> we lead the stealing to the iraqis and the afghans, they are stealing billions from us. but they're good at it. that's another story. >> you mentioned in the piece solyndra and how they never really made it to the front page. conservatives would say because of media that works for barack obama did not push those stories. >> yeah. >> there was a pew study that came out that actually said objectively...